Martin Gore Quotes

When I write love songs, people think they're really soppy - but I see love as a consolation for the boredom of life.

Martin Gore Depeche Mode

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• I am of the opinion that the appreciation and the desire for what is good takes more study and insight than does the understanding and test for the best music and art.

  

  Laurance Rockefeller
  • Good
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  • Art

• Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Desire
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• I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Think
  • Age
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• I'm more of a guy's girl. I like having a beer in a bar, and I don't bicker or sit down and do my nails.

  

  Zoe Saldana
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• Brands mature over time, like a marriage. The bond you feel with your spouse is different than when you first met each other. Excitement and discovery are replaced by comfort and depth.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Time
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• I have more of a desire to write songs about being an independent woman than being in love, songs about getting up and moving on even if I have a broken heart.

  

  Kat Graham
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  • Desire
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• I'd like to be Queen Elizabeth.

  

  Macy Gray
  • Like
  • Queen
  • Elizabeth

• More than anything for me, making music is about taking nothing and making something.

  

  K. Flay
  • Music
  • Me
  • Nothing

• Finishing games has been something I'm really proud of, seeing something through to the end.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Proud
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  • Seeing

• Someone told me, 'When you go see Pearl Jam, it's going to be a spiritual experience,' and it was. It was my first time seeing them live, and I've been a lifelong fan. Eddie Vedder's voice is a million times better live, and I couldn't believe the passion he put into every single song.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Time
  • Believe
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• Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Age
  • Never
  • Tongue

• I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.

  

  L. J. Smith
  • Want
  • Know
  • Me

• I don't worry about the things I can't change.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Change
  • Worry
  • Things

• Internal security implies also an external dimension, a defence capacity.

  

  Federica Mogherini
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• We were then satisfied that, with proper lubrication and better adjustments, a little more power could be expected. The completion of the motor according to drawing was, therefore, proceeded with at once.

  

  Orville Wright
  • Power
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• Don't let your sins turn into bad habits.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Bad
  • Turn
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• If a strong government finds that it can, with impunity, destroy a weak people, then the hour has struck for that weak people to appeal to the League of Nations to give its judgment in all freedom. God and history will remember your judgment.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • People
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• The very first thing I ever did, I was doing some work for the French Cultural Center. They wanted a little recording set up. And I got wire. A wire recorder. The wire came off spools, and to cut and edit, you tied it together in little square knots. Can you imagine?

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Up
  • Work
  • Together

• I would like to know that when I read the paper in the morning, it's telling me something that actually happened, and I think the vast majority of journalists want the same thing.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Morning
  • Paper
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• Every single being, even those who are hostile to us, is just as afraid of suffering as we are, and seeks happiness in the same way we do. Every person has the same right as we do to be happy and not to suffer. So let's take care of others wholeheartedly, of both our friends and our enemies. This is the basis for true compassion.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Friends
  • True
  • Happy

• Music, of almost any kind, always made sense to me.

  

  Michael Moriarty
  • Kind
  • Made

• If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Time
  • Love
  • Wasting

• I have a daughter and the thing I wish for her is not love, fame, money or anything like that. It's just one great best friend. You know, if you have somebody that has your back, you're gonna be all right.

  

  Ethan Hawke
  • Money
  • Love
  • Daughter

• When I write love songs, people think they're really soppy - but I see love as a consolation for the boredom of life.

  

  Martin Gore Depeche Mode
  • Love
  • Write
  • Songs